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	Night (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Night is an autobiographical novella by Elie Wiesel based on his experience, as a young Jew, of being deported from the village of Sighet in Transylvania to the German death camp at Auschwitz, and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald.
		Eliezer Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet (now Sighetu Marmaţiei), a village in the Carpathian mountains in northern Transylvania, annexed by Hungary in 1940, and now part of Romania.
		As the Allies prepared for the liberation of Europe in May and June that year, Sighet's Jews were being deported by the Germans to Auschwitz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Night_(book) (4308 words)

	Maramures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Known simply as Sighet, this is the the northernmost town in Romania, 37 miles (60 km.) north of Baia Mare and barely a mile from the Ukrainian border.
		Sighet was the birthplace of 1986 Nobel Prize winner, writer Elie Wiesel and the house on Str.
		It extends from Sighet to the Prislop Pass at the eastern border of Maramures county.
	romaniaguide.tripod.com /maramures.html (2061 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - tiganeasca's Romania Travelogue - III: Sighet
		Sighetu Marmatiei, usually known as Sighet (see-GET), is famous in America because it is the birthplace of Elie Wiesel.
		Sighet, though not far from Cluj, is on the far side of the Carpathian Mountains.
		Sighet is the largest city near where I was heading and, as such, it is a market town.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/tt/121f4 (3288 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Last Return (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		...Sighet had long sunk below the horizon, and I still kept my head turned toward it, as though it were possible for me to carry it away in my gaze...
		...Sighet, the real Sighet, was elsewhere, somewhere in Upper Silesia, near a peculiar little railroad station called Birkenau, near a great fire lighting up the sky...
		...Sighet was a frontier town, no one could stay there for four hours without advising the Militia...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V39I3P45-1.htm (5773 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Madmen of Sighet-A Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Besides, the story takes place in Sighet, the town where I was born-and that, won't you agree, is reason...
		...At this hour the sun is setting in Sighet, and in the prayer house, in the school, in the period of time between minha and maariv, the Hasidim are telling stories of the miracles performed by their rabbis...
		...Autumn in Sighet is suffused with a delicate sadness, with inexpressible nostalgia...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V45I5P40-1.htm (3103 words)

	Lives We Might Live
		Sighet breathes a collective sigh of relief - the Nazis are not as bad as they have heard.
		After registering the Jews of Sighet the Nazis deport all of the Jews who were not born in the village.
		Days after the first group of Jews are deported from Sighet the remaining Jews, including the influencial leaders, are forced into a few blocks of the city, they are made to live in a ghetto where they cannot leave and no one can enter.
	liveswemightlive.blogspot.com (2418 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Directed by Hungarian filmmaker Judit Elek, the documentary follows Wiesel on a journey back to his childhood home in Sighet, Romania, and to Auschwitz, where he was interred in 1944 and survived.
		He had been to Sighet several times before, each time leaving within a day of his arrival because of his severely conflicted feelings about his hometown.
		At a ceremony to give Wiesel honorary citizenship of Sighet, he acknowledges the honor, but he reminds the audience that no Christian in the once largely Jewish town came forth to help the Jews as they were deported to Auschwitz in 1944.
	www.jewishsf.com /bk021011/etp31b.shtml (711 words)

	Night Study Guide / Night Summary
		They live in the town of Sighet in Transylvania (on the border of Hungary and Romania).
		One day in 1942, Moshe the Beadle and all the other foreign Jews of Sighet are expelled and deported on cattle trains.
		More than a year passes and the Jews of Sighet are confident that the war will soon be over.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/nit/PART1.htm (584 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Romania - My Old Haunts . Witness to History \| PBS
		Mihai Dancus, a historian, is director of the Ethnographic Museum in Sighet, the regional capital, and of its newest addition, the Museum of Jewish Culture in Maramures.
		Certainly this homage to Sighet's famous son, now an American citizen and the only person born in Romania to be honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, fit into a larger strategy for the president.
		This prison, built in the last years of the 19th century, was chosen in part because it was so close to Ukraine: In case of attack from the West, it would have taken just minutes to spirit the political prisoners into the Soviet Union.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/romania/wiesel.html (2207 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Elie Wiesel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928.
		The town of Sighet is located in present-day Romania, although historically the area has been claimed by the people of both Hungary and Romania.
		Although Sighet became controlled by the Hungarians instead of the Romanians, the Jews in Sighet believed that they would be safe from the persecution that Jews in Germany and Poland were suffering.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Authors/about_elie_wiesel.html (787 words)

	THHP Questions: Sighet Marmatiei.
		Although the county belonged geographically to northern Transylvania, which Hungary acquired from Romania in September 1940, its Jews were liquidated together with those of Carpathian Ruthenia...
		The Jews of Sighet were ordered to enter a ghetto in April and early May of 1944.
		The ghetto was liquidated when the Jews were deported to Auschwitz in four transports between May 16 and 22, 1944.
	www.holocaust-history.org /questions/sighet.shtml (291 words)

	The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although it is located a long way from Bucharest, in the extreme north of Romania, the Sighet memorial is geographically in the centre of Europe, and is an important cultural tourist objective, visited both by Romanians and also by many foreign travellers.
		In the summer of 1948 the penitentiary from Sighet became political when a group of schoolchildren, students and young peasants who had acted in an anti-communist organization were brought here.
		Among its goals are civic education, youth education, a good knowledge of the country's past and to this purpose, the restoration of Romania's contemporary history falsified during the years of communist dictatorship.
	www.memorialsighet.ro /en (724 words)

	Sighet / Máramarossziget
		According to the Sighet protocol, the handstamp was burned after overprinting.
		The Sighet protocol mentions only nine stamps (7 issued stamps plus 2 trial printings) as being overprinted.
		Contradicting this, registered letters from Sighet in December 1944 have been found which employ only cash franking.
	www.jaypex.com /NT/sighet.htm (126 words)

	Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular . Life In Sighet, Romania 1920-1939 \| PBS
		Sighet, Elie Wiesel’s 1928 birthplace, still survives — a town in northern Romania near the meeting of the Hungarian and Ukrainian borders.
		Others have been contributed to the photo archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., most of them recovered from the work of an unknown Jewish studio photographer who, from 1920 to 1939, recorded images of the town and the life of its Jewish community.
		It is the recovery of those photos that makes this visit to pre-war Sighet possible.
	www.pbs.org /eliewiesel/photo (143 words)

	Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Jewish community of Sighet was a peaceful community.
		The Germans were coming to Sighet to eliminate the Jews.
		Elie’s father had a lot of authority in Sighet so he had apretty good idea of what was going on.
	www.geocities.com /am9354/night.html (814 words)

	Sighet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BFC-01773 SIGHET (also Maramaros Sighet, Maramarossziget, Sighetul Marmatiei, Sigut, Syhot Marmaroski, Sziget), Romania.
		BFC-01774 SIGHET (also Maramaros Sighet, Maramarossziget, Sighetul Marmatiei, Sigut, Syhot Marmaroski, Sziget), Romania.
		BFC-01775 SIGHET (also Maramaros Sighet, Maramarossziget, Sighetul Marmatiei, Sigut, Syhot Marmaroski, Sziget), Romania.
	www.bfcollection.net /cities/sighet.html (160 words)

	NovelGuide: Night: Novel Summary: Section 1
		The Jews of Sighet expect the war to end soon, and believe that Hitler will not be able to harm them.
		At this point, Sighet is under the control of the Hungarian government.
		In the beginning, Wiesel the author creates a picture of a harmonious Jewish community in Sighet that is held together by age-old religious beliefs and traditions in which the synagogue is the center of community life.
	www.novelguide.com /Night/summaries/Section1.html (1107 words)

	Jews of Sighetu-Marmatiei
		From Iasi, a somewhat larger and more important city in the northeast, but his wife was from Sighet and wanted to come back, and here they were.
		About 20,000 Jews lived in Sighet proper, and many more in the countryside.
		It was a sudden opening onto a vast historical vista I had not yet seen.
	thedagger.com /archive/romania/jews (822 words)

	Tisza River -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Romanian, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian Tisa a major tributary of the middle Danube River, rising in the Bukovina segment of the Carpathian Mountains.
		Its two headstreams, the Black and White Tisza, unite east of Sighet on the Ukraine-Romania border.
		From Sighet, Romania, the Tisza flows northwest through a small portion of Ukraine and then into Hungary.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9072634 (826 words)

	Elie Wiesel
		Wiesel was born in Sighet, a Rumanian shtetl, on September 30, 1928.
		The only person from Sighet who was sent to Poland and escaped was Moshe, who returned to Sighet to tell his story.
		The book, published in France in 1958 and in the U.S. in 1960, was autobiographical and told of his experiences from his youth in Sighet through his liberation from Buchenwald.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Wiesel.html (1754 words)

	FORWARD : Forward Living (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		By the next day, we arrived in Sighet, first the countryside and then the capital of Sighetu Marmatiei (the capital, confusingly, is usually referred to as Sighet, also the name of the region), an area with one of the richest Jewish heritages in Romania.
		One block away and around the corner is the main shul in Sighet, a large, freshly-renovated structure, also closed.
		Wiesel's house and the Sighet shul are ironic landmarks in the Jewish Europe renovation folly.
	www.forward.com /issues/2004/04.01.23/living1.html (1433 words)

	Ghettos of Sighet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Ghettos of Sighet were two designated areas enclosed with barbed wire all the way around them.
		The Germans would arrive in the ghettos and use the men for heavy lifting and other strenuous activities while they would find smaller jobs for the women to do.
		The people’s lives in Sighet did not go on same way that it had.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/prince/eng101/Night/Textnotes/ghettos.htm (189 words)

	Elie Wiesel Returns to his Home in Sighet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On July 30, professor Wiesel will be presented with the title of Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy and will deliver the acceptance speech “Lessons of Memory and Gratitude”, in front of an audience of politicians, members of the Romanian Academy, think-tank representatives, journalists.
		Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in the town of Sighet.
		The Wiesel family house in Sighet has been restored and designated by the Romanian Government to become Elie Wiesel Memorial House.
	www.roembus.org /english/news/press_releases/2002/July_23_2002.htm (225 words)

	Jasmine Batscha: In What Way Does My Grandmother's Life Story Correlate with the One of Elie Wiesel's?
		The Jewish community in Sighet, which was a center for Chasidic and Orthodox Jews, was very organized.
		When the Nazis entered Sighet, they built there a ghetto for the Jews from Sighet and the areas near by.
		The Sighet ghetto was liquidated through the deportation of the Jews to Auschwitz.
	www.zchor.org /remembrance/sara.htm (2837 words)

	Night Sighet, Birkenau and Auschwitz
		After Moshe is expelled with the other foreign-born Jews, he miraculously returns to tell the Jews of Sighet that all those who were expelled have been killed.
		In the spring of 1944, German troops appear in Sighet, and the occupiers issue anti-Semitic decrees and establish two Jewish ghettos.
		Eventually, the Jews of Sighet are told that they are going to be...
	www.enotes.com /night-wiesel/8025 (139 words)

	Return to Sighet
		My mother is a Holocaust survivor and author.
		In 1995, at the age of 72, she, along with her four daughters and a videographer, journeyed from our home in Oregon to her hometown of Sighet, a tiny mountain village in northwest Romania.
		We found her childhood home, a house she hadn't seen in 50 years.
	savvytraveler.publicradio.org /show/letters/2000/20001020/3.shtml (136 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They have deported all the foreign Jews from Sighet.
		The community, course, wept for them, but nothing more was really done.
		Aren't we hoping that they wouldn't arrive?" Still, now they are here.
	www.teachnlearn.org /journal.html (652 words)

	wieselshomeldvanburen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Intended Audience: This site answers questions for those interested in what happened in Sighet, Marmatiei during the Holocaust.
		Description of the site: Sighet, Marmatiei is actually a section of The Holocaust Project which has numerous articles on this tragic historical event.
		Sighet, Marmatiei is the starting point for Elie Wiesel as a young boy.
	coe.west.asu.edu /students/tvanburen/wieselshomeld.htm (102 words)

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